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UNITED srarns PATENT omnon,

THOMAS A. DAVIES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,354, dated January 15, 1846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. DAVIES, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing Clocksor Timepieces.

The nature of my invention consists in dispensing with ordinary weightsor springs of the clock as the motive power to carry the works and usingin their stead the working parts, case, &c., as the means of carryingthe clock or timepiece by means of their own weight. The following Ideclare to be an exactdescription of the same.

The movement part of the clock with the striking part or without it canbe made in any usual way with either a balance wheel or pendulum. Thecords being wound around the strike and time barrels of this main shaftthe two ends are united and passed over a pulley as represented at Pupon the. draft the cords being represented at C, C, and coming out ofthe case at O, O. Thepulley above is hung upon a pivot at any convenientplane and the cord passing over it sustains the weight of the wholetimepiece case and all and which being left the time and strike parts ofthe clock to work in the ordinary way. When the body of the clock hasdescended to the length of the cords it is again wound up in theordinary way except the clock ascends in the operation. A mere timepiecewithout the striking parts can be made upon the same principle by usingone cord with a ring at one end to hang by the cord wound around thetime barrel.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

suspending the case and parts of a clock or timepiece as above describedin such a way as that the weight of the same will cause the workingparts to go in the usual way thereby saving the expense of the ordinaryweights and springs as the motive power. I also claim the introductionof the pulley as herein described to regulate the weight between thetime and strike sides.

v THOS. A. DAVIES. Witnesses:

AMos B. LITTLE, A. P. BROWNE.

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